3 points in 9 matches, the second to last is 2 points ahead with a game in hand. There is confidence then there is desilusion. I can’t imagine lyon fans are too happy with this carefree statement.
Weren’t you guys close to relegation a few years ago? Or am i remebering it wrong? You have a good squad now!
ajax and lyon really have stubborn people thats crazy
Ajax and Lyon are great case studies into why football has devolved into a broken sport masquerading as bad business. The elite aren’t the elite because they have some grand masters behind the scenes (some do, most don’t). Majority of football clubs are run exceptionally poorly. It’s a grand combination of luck, basic planning, staying the course and opportunity. Ajax wanted to make serious changes after last season and got someone who was regarded as a smart mind. Then he starts attempting to tear everything down so he could do favors for his buddies. John Textor bought Lyon and tried to run it like Clearlake did with Chelsea but without extreme investment. Their situation is exactly where Chelsea would be if it weren’t for ownership ceding control to the directors they hired.
So many bad transfers happen in football because of ego, ulterior motives, vested interests, favours, an absence of planning, arrogance, panic, injuries, doing transfers just to please a rabid fan base in an age where the transaction has quickly become more popular than the actual sport. But it’s made especially worse when the egos involved are too volatile and act like they know better because, well, they got in their position somehow so clearly they’re the geniuses and we don’t know more than them.
It’s why it always kills me when people idolize managers or sporting directors. As if they’re infallible human beings as opposed to flawed humans like the rest of us trying to do what their version of right is.
Ehh I can’t speak for Lyon but this is not really a good assessment of what has happened with us. What is true however is that everything in football is volatile and fickle as hell. A player that’s great today is horrible tomorrow or the other way around and that goes for managers, sporting directors, clubs and even leagues all the same.
It’s thinking that ‘because you’re good today, you’ll be good tomorrow’ that is the real danger here. It’s behind our problems, it’s behind Lyon’s problems, hell, it’s the reason Serie A is not the best league in the world anymore.
well that’s just not true
Love Maitland-Niles but his choice of clubs to play for is horrendous
People saying otherwise are being dramatic. Lyon will not get relegated this season.
Dude probably hasn’t even seen the table. The contrast between this and Grosso’s statements show just out of touch with the situation Textor is. It would be one thing if he said he was confident in the teams abilities and that they’ll be able too avoid relegation but the way it’s worded is so arrogant and ignorant to the very real threat.
The other teams around Lyon know exactly they are in a relegation battle, Lyon should accept as fast as possible.
And fuck John Textor.
We were supposed to bring in Julian Ward as Sporting Director, but somehow got Sven Mislintat instead.
Oh god don’t say that
What I don’t get is that this guy also owns Crystal Palace and yet they’re being ran quite well at the moment. How can you be so bad with one club but decent with the other?
For those young uns who might not know, this is pretty a pretty wild situation, considering the fact that Lyon won Ligue 1 7 years in a row from 2002 - 2008